Headline of the Day

Trump Evasive About Raising Pa. Minimum Wage While Pretending to Work at McDonald’s in Bucks County

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

A suggestion for the New York Times, hire whoever wrote that hed, and have them give lessons.

This is how news is handled, not with the equivocation and both-siderism that one seems to be the rule at the Times.

The McDonald's was closed, no one paid for any food, there were no customers, and the franchise owner refuses to pay his workers well.

That is the story:

While visiting a McDonald’s in Bucks County on Sunday, former President Donald Trump failed to answer a question about raising the minimum wage even though an overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania voters support an increase.

Trump, 78, “worked” the fry cooker at a McDonald’s — which was closed to the public for the event — in Feasterville.

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The beginning of the question is cut off, so it’s unclear if the reporter was asking about raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage specifically. At $7.25, the state’s minimum wage is aligned with the federal rate, and is one of the lowest minimum wages in the country. It hasn’t been changed since 2009, the last time the federal minimum wage was increased.

“It’s a beautiful thing to see these are great franchises and produce a lot of jobs and it’s great,” Trump went on. “And great people work in here too.” As several reporters shouted again about the minimum wage, he continued to ignore them.

Trump’s obfuscation could mean something to the more than three-quarters of all Pennsylvanians who somewhat or strongly support increasing the state minimum wage.

That's because in Donald's world, paying decent wages is for suckers.